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BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, EARLS OF

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 728 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, EARLS OF . The first See also:earl of Buckinghamshire (to be distinguished from the earls of See also:Buckingham, q.v.) was See also:John See also:Hobart (c. 1694–1756), a descendant of See also:Sir See also:Henry Hobart (d. 1625), See also:attorney-See also:general and See also:chief See also:justice of the See also:common pleas under See also:James I., who was made a See also:baronet in 1611, and who was the See also:great-See also:grandson of Sir James Hobart (d. 1507), attorney-general to Henry VII. The Hobarts had been settled in See also:Norfolk and See also:Suffolk for many years, when in 1728 John Hobart, who was a son of Sir Henry Hobart, the 4th baronet (d. 1698), was created See also:Baron Hobart of Blickling. In 1740 Hobart became See also:lord-See also:lieutenant of Norfolk and in 1746 earl of Buckinghamshire, hissister, Henrietta See also:Howard, countess of Suffolk, being the See also:mistress of See also:George II. He died on the 22nd of See also:September 1756, and was succeeded as 2nd earls by his eldest son John (1723-1793), who was member of See also:parliament for See also:Norwich and See also:comptroller of the royal See also:household before his See also:accession to the See also:title. From 1762 to 1766 he was See also:ambassador to See also:Russia, and from 1776 to 1780 lord-lieutenant of See also:Ireland, but he was hardly equal to the exceptional difficulties with which he had to See also:deal in the latter position. He died without sons at Blickling See also:Hall, Norfolk, on the 3rd of See also:August 1793, when his See also:half-See also:brother George (c. 1730-1804), became 3rd earl.

Blickling Hall and his Norfolk estates, however, passed to his daughter, Henrietta (1762–1805), the wife of See also:

William Kerr, afterwards 6th See also:marquess of See also:Lothian. See also:Robert Hobart, 4th earl of Buckinghamshire (1760–1816), the eldest son of the 3rd earl, was See also:born on the 6th of May 1760. He was a soldier, and then a member of both the See also:English and the Irish Houses of See also:Commons; from 1789 to 1793 he was chief secretary to the lord-lieutenant of Ireland, exerting his See also:influence in this See also:country to prevent any concessions to the See also:Roman Catholics. In 1793, being known by the See also:courtesy title of Lord Hobart, he was sent to See also:Madras as See also:governor, but in 1798, after serious See also:differences between himself and the governor-general of See also:India, Sir John See also:Shore, afterwards Lord See also:Teignmouth, he was recalled. Returning to See also:British politics, Hobart was called up to the See also:House of Lords in 1798 (succeeding to the earldom of Buckinghamshire in 1804); he favoured the See also:union between See also:England and Ireland; from See also:March 1801 to May 1804 he was secretary for See also:war and the colonies (his See also:family name being taken for Hobart See also:Town in See also:Tasmania), and in 1805 he became See also:chancellor of the duchy of See also:Lancaster under See also:Pitt. For a See also:short See also:time he was See also:joint See also:post See also:master-general, and from 1812 until his See also:death on the 4th of See also:February 1816 he was See also:president of the See also:Board of See also:Control, a post for which his See also:Indian experience had fitted him. The 4th earl See also:left no sons, and his titles passed to his See also:nephew, George Robert Hobart (1789-1849), a son of George See also:Vere Hobart (1761-1802), lieutenant-governor of See also:Grenada. In 1824 the 5th earl inherited the Buckinghamshire estates of the See also:Hampden family and took the name of Hampden, his ancestor, Sir John Hobart, 3rd baronet, having married See also:Mary Hampden about 1655. On his death in February 1849 his brother, See also:Augustus See also:Edward Hobart (1793–1884), who took the name of Hobart-Hampden in 1878, became 6th earl. His two sons, Vere Henry, Lord Hobart (1818–1875), governor of Madras from 1872, and See also:Frederick John Hobart (1821–1875), predeceased him, and when the 6th earl died he was succeeded by his grandson, See also:Sidney Carr Hobart-Hampden (b. 1860), who became 7th earl of Buckinghamshire, and who added to his name that of See also:Mercer-See also:Henderson. Another of the 6th earl's sons was Augustus See also:Charles Hobart-Hampden, generally known as Hobart See also:Pasha (q.v.).

See Lord Hobart's Essays and See also:

Miscellaneous Writings, edited with See also:biography by See also:Lady Hobart (1885).

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